Description

New Work SE – for a better working life

We believe in a world of work where people can find their true self and achieve their full potential. NEW WORK SE offers a wide range of brands, products and services for a better working life. This not only makes individuals more satisfied and happier, it also makes companies more successful.

XING, a New Work SE subsidiary, is the leading online business network in German-speaking countries and supports its 16.5 million members in working in line with their way of life and individual preferences. Professionals from every industry connect with one another, look and apply for jobs, and seek inspiration about the latest trends in the world of work. Thanks to the broad news portfolio, XING members can keep their finger on the pulse and discuss the latest developments.

We are looking to welcoming a “System Engineer Databases” to join our highly skilled and motivated Data Infrastructure Services team as part of the Site Operations Department. The team ensures the effective performance of the entire Data & Database Infrastructure consisting of hundreds of MySQL, PostgreSQL & MongoDB clusters, Hadoop, Kafka & Cassandra environments.

A challenging task

• Ensure the availability and scalability of our database and big data systems
• Design, automate and implement highly available database environments as part of our on-prem infrastructure (MySQL, Galera Clusters, PostgreSQL, MongoDB)
• Lead efforts on performance tuning, scaling and overall improvement efforts in close cooperation with product, engineering, and architecture teams
• Use Chef and Ansible to automate testing and deployments of the environments, as well as anything else you might come across
• Provide consulting to our product and engineering teams on how to design and implement highly scalable database driven apps
• Track resource usage trends and take preventative action to maintain system health
• Participate in our on-call rotation

A convincing background

• BSc or higher degree in Computer Science or equivalent System or Software Engineering experience.
• Solid experience in designing & implementing highly available and scalable database infrastructures (preferably MySQL, Galera and PostgreSQL)
• Experience of automating Linux Environments using any automation & configuration management tool (i.e. Chef, Ansible or others)
• Working knowledge of Hadoop, Kafka, Cassandra is a plus.
• Knowledge of a programming language (Ruby, Python, Scala/Java) is a plus.
• Experience working with relevant AWS technologies (EC2, RDS, S3)
• Proficient English language skills.
• A positive mindset and the social skills to work in a highly international and distributed setup, and desire to learn and share your knowledge with your Community of Practice.
• Prompt to laugh. Daily. Multiple times.

An inspiring environment

• The chance to work on a large, highly distributed platform with over 16 million users.
• Varied tasks, uncomplicated interactions with your colleagues as well as many opportunities to bring in your own ideas await you.
• Innovation/hack weeks every few months where you can unleash your creativity and ideas.
• Annual conference allowances, regular training, meetups and brown bag lunches throughout the year, as well as the opportunity to speak at conferences - we'll support you where we can
• Health Insurance
• An Employee Assistance Program to help you with all kinds of personal topics, to ensure you have the support for a better working life
• 25 days of vacation per year + 2 days off (Christmas eve and New Year’s eve)
• A multicultural environment with employees from all over the world, who have various technology backgrounds
• Free breakfast, fruit, drinks, snacks and much more.
• English, German and Portuguese lessons
• A mobile device for your private use (iPhone, iPad, Android, you choose!).
• Competitive salary.

We contribute into open source (https://github.com/xing) and let the world know what we are doing (https://devblog.xing.com) and organize public user groups and coding events. Check out our XING engineering blog at https://tech.xing.com/

Your turn: If you think this position is right for you and that you can help us make XING big in Porto, we’d be delighted to talk to you. Simply apply at our careers website or send an Email with your contact information and a CV to [email protected].

Not the right job for you? Don’t worry! You’re more than welcome to send us an unsolicited application!